Hi Alan, That’s exactly the effect I had and is, as Murray comments, probably due to the BT DNS servers taking a very long time to find the Yahoo Ad and image servers – try changing the DNS on

Hi Noel an interesting comment. I am on the BT server for mail (not BT-Yahoo) I find the on any group web-site the initial welcome page (with a blank picture) appears immediately ....that says not a

I'm on the south coast (Southampton) and would be up for a go dependant on work and other commitments. John

Hi Folks, Just to say I am taking my smaller DGU 3cm system [about 2w] and a Panel antenna over to Brittany from next Monday....I will be staying around the Roscoff area on the border of IN78 and

Glad to be of help J Try this article - http://www.howtogeek.com/122845/htg-explains-what-is-dns/ and http://www.howtogeek.com/164981/how-to-switch-to-opendns-or-google-dns-to-speed-up-web-browsing/ -

Same problem with Virgin Media ISP, same fix, set DNS to 8.8.8.8 Just exactly what am I doing when I set my DNS to do this? I think I'm looking for an explanation of DNS here! 73 John

Hi – thanks for the heads up that it might be DNS related – I’ve changed the DNS on this PC to Google DNS 8.8.8.8 and the problem is cured – it took over 2 minutes to load the files area

Hi Noel, I have a real problem when using my iPad. Selecting "view as desktop site" from the settings menu within Chrome improves it to the point where it's just about usable. As others have

Hi Noel - what are you using to view/access? There is a known issue re iPads but PCs (Chrome etc) should be better... - and I am on BTinternet too (where I think the BT DNS has an issue and can be

Fine here BT Internet user 'jnt

Thanks for the feedback John. Glad you found it useful. Cheers Roger GW4NOS

Is it just me or do others find any of the Yahoo groups web pages excruciatingly slow – as in almost minutes - to load? Bizarrely, it seems to load very quickly on my mobile so is Yahoo

Hi Roger yep all works fine the little prog switches to NMEA (which is handy as the GPS module resets to Motorola when turned off) and the other is nice and simple to use and will now be my choice of

I think I'd of moved 😱

A couple of pictures of my 'Electrifying Site' on the Quantock Hills in Somerset Three 2way QSOs with JTT VPF and GTZ one way with API and reception of Andy's 100mW beacon !

I'd like to point out that ASCII NMEA messages were only linked to 4800Bd by a certain number of equip manufacturers as they were operating in the sailing/autohelm and auto-bridge businesses.

Hi John I hope you (or anyone else for that matter) find some of it useful. I write my software for my own amusement but sometimes I feel others may find it useful. That's why I uploaded it. It

Hi Noel..sorry that you had problems this evening..hopefully they will be easily resolved! Adrian

Thanks Roger will have a play with it tomorrow and report back. 73 John

I uploaded some stuff to do with GPS into the file section a few years ago. It included a utility to switch on the NMEA output on a Jupiter -T GPS and another which tells you your 10 digit locator